Congratulations Evan, you have just cost me Euros 84 (+ shipping & handling!), not for that fetching 3-axle GMC rail truck, but for a Stalinetz S65 crawler

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Congratulations Evan, you have just cost me Euros 84 (+ shipping &
handling!), not for that fetching 3-axle 'GMC' rail truck, but for a
'Stalinetz S65' crawler tractor! In my travels in Russia I twice came
across local conversions of said vehicle into 4-wheel narrow gauge (?
750mm ? ) rail 'critters', one on a bush tramway-cum-logging line
(ex-Gulag), the second in a massive state-owned cheese factory! In the
1960s I also came across another 'Stalinetz S65' on the Atlantic coast
of France, being used as a beach tractor to haul fishing boats up above
the high tide line - how the h--l it came to be there is anybody's
guess. Earlier this century I also came across another one working in a
pit prop producing timber stand in western Ghana - presumably as a
result of 'fraternal aid' when the Soviet Union was still somewhat
interested in that part of the world.

Mike-the Stalinetz S65, a little cat tractor, looks like the superstructure could be made into a critter with the right power unit. The tracks could be made

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Mike-the Stalinetz S65, a little cat tractor, looks like the superstructure could be made into a "critter" with the right power unit. The tracks could be made into something else or just rusted & set in the weed patch! That's a neat site.

Woodie C Greene

Mike South <mikesouth@...> wrote:

Congratulations Evan, you have just cost me Euros 84 (+ shipping & handling!), not for that fetching 3-axle 'GMC' rail truck, but for a
'Stalinetz S65' crawler tractor! In my travels in Russia I twice came across local conversions of said vehicle into 4-wheel narrow gauge (? 750mm ? ) rail 'critters', one on a bush tramway-cum- logging line (ex-Gulag), the second in a massive state-owned cheese factory! In the 1960s I also came across another 'Stalinetz S65' on the Atlantic coast of France, being used as a beach tractor to haul fishing boats up above the high tide line - how the h--l it came to be there is anybody's guess. Earlier this century I also came across another one working in a pit prop producing timber stand in western Ghana - presumably as a result of 'fraternal aid' when the Soviet Union was still somewhat interested in that part of the world.